As Ken Burns pointed out in an interview on Meet the Press, the Founders would likely be disappointed that the Legislative Branch, under the Republicans, has abrogated their responsibility. Article 1 from the Founders is about the Legislature, as they knew full well the propensity of single men to seize as much power and control as allowed. The Founders knew monarchs, and for the first time in human history, they tried to establish a system where no single individual had total control or power. Luckily there are still members of the Judiciary who know their role and try to put limits on what Trump tries to do. Of course we see the DoJ ignoring court orders, trying to act as if there are no checks and balances in the system. Sadly the Republican Congress is more like a North Korean applauding seal squad than an entity ostensibly sharing power with the Executive and Judiciary. The Founders did anticipate a Trump cult could come along. Alexander Hamilton wrote: "When a man unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, despotic in his ordinary demeanor---known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty---when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity---to join in the cry of danger to liberty---to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government and bringing it under suspicion---to flatter and fall in with all the nonsense of the zealots of the day---it may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may ‘ride the storm and direct the whirlwind’”
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